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Andy serves Vendor Strategy professionals. He is a leading expert on IT spending, purchases, and budgeting trends, IT spending benchmarks, and tech sector economics. He also covers sourcing and procurement technologies (eSourcing, eProcurement, contract life-cycle management, accounts payable electronic invoice presentment and processing (AP-EIPP), automated spend analysis, supplier networks, and eMarkets), and B2B eCommerce trends. In addition, he covers IT budgets, priorities, and business impacts in the utilities, oil and gas, and professional services industries.
Andy has extensive experience in the technology market and in strategic planning, both as an analyst and a practitioner in the business world. Andy came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group in 2003, where he had worked as a vice president and research leader since 1998. Prior to joining Giga, Andy held a variety of vice president positions at American Express in the chairman's office, technologies, strategic planning, and re-engineering. Before joining American Express, Andy worked as an economist, writer, and editor for various organizations, including Shearson Lehman Brothers; the US House of Representatives' Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs; and the Council on Wage and Price Stability in the Executive Office of the President.Andy has been a regular participant in Forrester's IT Forum conferences, delivering keynote addresses in 2006 and 2007 with colleagues on the future of software. He has also been a recurring presenter at Conference Board conferences on eProcurement and eSourcing. He has been quoted in leading business and technology publications, including BusinessWeek, The New York Times, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal.
Andy earned a B.A. in philosophy from Haverford College and a Ph.D. in history from Johns Hopkins University.
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Long-Term US IT Market Outlook IT Purchases and IT Spending 2008-2016 September 2008 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
Q3 2008 US IT Market Outlook Update September 2008 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
2007 and 2008 IT Staff data November 2008 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
Supplier Network Services December 2008 Receive an alert when this document is published: email RSS
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